Regular expression to extract text between square brackets

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You can use the following regex globally:

\[(.*?)\]

Explanation:

  • \[ : [ is a meta char and needs to be escaped if you want to match it literally.
  • (.*?) : match everything in a non-greedy way and capture it.
  • \] : ] is a meta char and needs to be escaped if you want to match it literally.

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